GENDER INEQUALITY IN HEALTH IN SELECTED STATES IN INDIA: BI-VARIATE AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Keywords:
Gender, Health, Health inequality and IndiaAbstract
Background: -The distinct roles and behaviours of men and women in a given culture, dictated by that culture's gender norms and values, give rise to gender differences. Both gender differences and gender inequalities can give rise to inequities between men and women in health status and access to health care services. Objectives: - To understand the gender differences among the adult population and their health condition. To examine the gender differences by using health care services in India. Methodology: - to understand of gender and health status of the adults, LASI data has been used. Data has treated with Bi-variate and multivariate technique with STATA 12 and SPSS 20 version software. Results: - The proportion of females are significantly higher (58.10 %) than males (44.50 %) in age groups 45 – 54 years while, male age group 65 and above are significant greater (27 %) than female and more female are residing in rural areas, independently of age. Gender inequality significantly higher in rural areas (0.735) compared to their counterparts; in term use of the health care facility i. e. public hospital visit. In urban areas, private hospital visit or utilisation health care services are shows grater gender inequality than other health care visit. The poorest wealth quintile population has an insignificant diabetes problem (0.07 %) while; rich (12.30 %) and richest quintile (21.80 %) population has a notable percentage of diabetic. Conclusion: - Significant investment in terms of quality policy and programs required for making healthy aging, which will be capable to contribute to the community and engage with their families and more years of independence in their own homes.
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